the article includes two discourses: first discourse, discusses about modernity and two of its main foundations; rationalism and humanism, and then explanes their impacts on the formation of the modern world, society and human being. second discourse, considers the postmodern critical approach to modernity and its principles. postmodernism, totally rejects the modern reason and deconstructs all...

Almost since its inception, the concept of modernity was found to display tensions between its emancipatory potential to liberate the human subject from the manacles of tradition, and the application of reason to co-ordinate and control the natural world through scientific knowledge. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 12 midwives about their role in the Irish...

This paper investigates the implications of Australia’s prohibition of ‘child-abuse material’ (including cartoons, animation, drawings, and text) for Australian fan communities of animation, comics and gaming (ACG) and slash fiction. It is argued that current legislation is out of synch with the new communicative environment brought about by the Internet since a large portion of the fans produc...

This article scrutinises the role of strategic and communicative rationalities in spatial planning. It contributes to theoretical discussion on planning, where rationality has usually been taken as a normative standpoint, despite evident guiding planning ground. To develop means for equally recognising two rationalities, introduces an analytical framework which four orientations are identified ...

The concept of agency is increasingly used in the literature on sustainability transitions. In this paper, we add to that discussion by arguing rationality opens new avenues theorizing relational transitions toward a circular economy. To end, compare conceptions from management (e.g., collaboration and competition) with critical theory perspectives instrumental communicative rationality). This ...

Automated information and production technology has been implemented widely at sawmills during the last 5-8 years. Sawmills have become information-intensive companies. The interest of the author is, how does the concept driven communicative development meet the technical rationality of a modern enterprise. In the project ‘Development network at sawmills’ we used the communicative action resear...

The use of popular expressive arts as antidotes to the pathologies of the parallel processes of lifeworld colonization and cultural impoverishment has been under-theorized. This article enters the void with a project in which breast cancer survivors used collages and installations of everyday objects to solicit their authentic expression of the psycho-social impacts of lymphedema. The article e...